THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND in and around SHAFTESBURY Key Ring May 2019 The Shaftesbury Team:
Team Rector: The Revd Dr Helen Dawes 01747 850589 [email protected]
The Revd Pam Rink 01747 590712 pam@ ShaftesburyCofE.org.uk
Associate Priest: The Revd Jeremy Mais 01747 858931 jeremy@ ShaftesburyCofE.org.uk
Helen and Pam have Friday as their day off
Co-ordinator for Hospital Visiting and Communion The Revd Jan Crossley 01747 852545 [email protected]
Team Administrator: Barbara Priest 01747 853060
The Team Office, 5 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury SP7 8JW
office@ ShaftesburyCofE.org.uk
Web site: http:// ShaftesburyCofE.org.uk
Open from 9am until 12noon Monday - Friday
Salisbury Diocesan website: www.salisbury.anglican.org
Key Ring Clergy consultant: The Revd Dr Helen Dawes Editor: Wendy Tindall-Shepherd keyring@ ShaftesburyCofE.org.uk Tel. 01747 822299 Parish correspondents: Compton Abbas Gillian Cross 01747 811263 The Orchards Rita Stranger 01258 472331 St John’s Enmore Green Jo Churchill 01747 850432 Margaret Marsh Nancy Roberts 01258 472129 Melbury Abbas Tavy Bradley Watson 01747 855819 Motcombe The Revd Pam Rink 01747 590712 St James’ Shaftesbury Jeanne Loader 01747 854980 St Peter’s Shaftesbury Michael Pattison [email protected]
2 Leading Article
‘This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls’” Jeremiah 6 vs 16
In the above verse, Jeremiah longs for his people to stop at the crossroads – to wait there and think carefully about the choices which present themselves. He is not asking them to be hesitant but to remember what has brought them to the crossroads; namely, the God of their history who, through Moses, led them out of slavery. Yet history reveals how stubborn and resistant we all are to follow the “ancient paths” of a love for God with heart and mind and for this love to overflow into the way we live our lives in community. It’s my turn to compose a letter for Key Ring and the copy deadline of 12th April suddenly looms large. It falls on a day of reckoning for the United Kingdom. Will we be IN or OUT of the European Union? Will Brexit be old news by the time you read the May edition of Keyring? I wish – O how I wish! We laugh at Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army as he rushes to and fro, muttering “don’t panic – don’t panic”. He doesn’t realise his words are having the opposite effect! There was a day when for a moment I became Corporal Jones. It was my first Sunday in a group of rural parishes and I set out for the 11 o’clock service. As I drove into the village there was no sign of a church. Back and forth I went, looking left and right. Nothing! Panic set in. I stopped the car, switched off the engine –whispered a desperate prayer and waited. I opened my eyes, started the engine and inched my way through the village. Suddenly, on my right, there it stood! How could I have not seen it? You, O Lord, are good to those who wait for you, to all who seek you. It is good to wait in patience for the salvation of the Lord”. It seems to me these words from Lamentations on ‘seeking and waiting’ do not have to be separate activities but are bound together! This discovery has taught me a lesson of the rewards of waiting on God through prayer – a combination of seeking and waiting. Standing at a crossroads is a good place to be, offering time to look and listen. As followers of Christ Jesus, we can pray for his wisdom, courage and compassion for the next stage of our journey.
Rachael is a good friend who, for many years was in poor health. During a time of waiting and seeking, she wrote a prayer about listening to and giving our full attention to Jesus who stands at the crossroads in our lives and walks with us…
3 New every morning is your love Great God of light and at your feet we may sit in this moment - and gathered here is love.
Here is a quiet space for safe encounters and wiser understanding for our learning, a robe for the touching of our hand to share healing grace from the body of Christ.
Here is a place near to feet that have walked our dusty ways and moved in courage among our complexities, felt our painful choices at the crossroads, turned themselves reluctantly towards our harder paths and formed footsteps ahead of us towards a truer, braver, many-coloured life.
Let us sit at the feet of our God”.
Jeremy Mais
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6 St Peter’s
Calendar – check website/pew sheets for later updates Sunday 5th, 3pm - Shaftesbury St John Ambulance service Saturday 11th , 8.30am - Men’s breakfast 6.30pm -11pm - Supper Dance – see advertisement on Pg 8 Tuesday 14th, 7.30pm - PCC meeting Saturday 18th, 10.30am - Prayer on the Streets 10.30am - Doughnut Time Sunday 19th, 3pm - Christening Celebration service Saturday 25th, 1pm - Wedding Scrivener/Wareham Tuesday 28th, 7.30pm - Sing & Praise
7 COUNTY LINES. A NEW LINE IN CHILD EXPLOITATION.
County Lines refers to the use of young people by gangs and organised crime networks to sell drugs in country towns. As couriers, they arouse little suspicion. Vulnerable children are targeted : the unloved, the runaways from broken homes and those with little parental control. The offer of cash can often tempt the impoverished unhappy child into a criminal world from which there is little chance of escape. The Children’s Society has created its National Disrupting Exploitation Programme to identify the children and young persons involved and projects in London, Greater Manchester and Birmingham have achieved some success. The Society’s work with runaway children for the past several decades has helped and it keeps in close contact with the All Party Group on Young Runaways established in Parliament. More details are available on the Society’s website.
The Shaftesbury Committee’s next local event is its annual Street Collection in Shaftesbury on Saturday 27th April. If you read this in time, please look out for the collectors and support the Society’s work among the more vulnerable and often exploited young members in our communities.
Read more on www.childrenssociety.org.uk
8 St Thomas’s Church, Melbury Abbas
Services in May
5th May 9.30am Parish Communion 12th May 11.15am Parish Communion 19th May No service in St Thomas’s 26th May 11.15am Matins OTHER DATES FOR THE DIARY
9th June Pet Service – more details to follow 15th June 10.30 to 12.30 Jumble and Plant Sale in the Village Hall
Jumble and Plant sale on Saturday 15th June in the Village Hall. We will be collecting jumble and plants so if anyone has anything to offer please let us know and we can collect items from you. Declutter your cupboards in aid of St Thomas’s Preservation Society! Telephone Jess 853942 or Juliet 851836 for help with transporting your unwanted goods. Church Cleaning
The Church Annual Spring Clean took place on Friday, 12th April. After this event, the church always feels crisper and cleaner and smells of polish. It would be lovely if anyone else is prepared to come on the monthly cleaning rota. This is done in pairs, and your turn comes round once a year so it only means that you have to give up two hours of your time to help. Please telephone Elizabeth Lindsay-Rae (01747 853892) who organises the rota if you are willing to support the church in Melbury in this way.
Churchyard Mowing
There are currently only 4 people on the mowing rota. If anyone else is prepared to help with this, please contact Colin Sandbach (01747 858514). This task doesn’t come round very often and only through the cutting season.
Mary Young 1926-2019 Mary Young (nee Harris) was born in 1926 in Fonthill Bishop where her father farmed. Sadly when she was only four years old her father died and she, along with her mother, older brother and younger sister, moved to Birdbush Farm, Ludwell. Mary attended Ludwell School and then progressed to Shaftesbury High School. She was a keen hockey player. After school she worked in the offices of John Jeffery in Donhead where she ruled forcefully. At the same time she was active in Gillingham & Shaftesbury Young Farmers and through their social circle met Cedric Young at the weekend dances. They married at St Rumbold’s church, Cann in 1949 and moved into Boyne Villa. Soon
9 Shirley and Roger arrived and Mary’s life was dominated by home, garden, farm and family. There was always a well stocked vegetable and flower garden and a cake in the tin. She enjoyed the Melbury Abbas & Cann W.I. and was President for several years. A highlight was being selected to represent the Institute at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party. This interest progressed to the W.I. Market organisation and she was to be found in Shaftesbury Town Hall on a Thursday morning until her 90th birthday. In 1970 she and Cedric moved into Cannfield Farm after the death of her in-laws. She had seen Point-to-Point Races on the farm in the early 1950’s and became an ardent supporter of the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show when it became a regular visitor to the farm in the 1970’s.
ANGELIQUE: I Feel like a Human Being again
Genocide widow Angelique Kantarama says she feels like a human being for the first time since 1994. Many members of the Shaftesbury Team support the work of the charity Msaada so they may be interested to learn how the Charity’s Christmas appeal raised funds to provide a secure home for Angelique, who lost every member of her family during the genocide. “I survived alone, I was traumatised and I was crazy”, she revealed. “During the genocide I was taken hostage by the killers and forced to be the wife of one of them” She escaped from her captors when they fled to Tanzania from the advancing Rwanda Patriotic Front army that put an end to the genocide. She went back to where her old home was in Kibungo, but it was demolished so she lived in the bush for many years. Those who killed her family were by now back in the area and they kept menacing her because they thought she would report them to the authorities, so she fled again. She went to FARG, a genocide survivor support organisation, and they gave her a house in Rwamagana. To get to her new home she had to walk 50km from Kibungo. Angelique explained that it was not a good house. It had been built cheaply and was in very bad condition with no proper doors or windows and thieves used to get in and steal whatever food she had. She had no furniture and slept on a reed mat on the mud floor. Then Msaada came and rebuilt the house for her. “Since Msaada’s help I now feel like a human being again. May almighty God bless you,” Angelique declared. “Because you healed a heart that had wounds for so long.” Angelique explained that before the genocide she was an orphan and, although very clever, suffered discrimination at school because of politics. In time, she got married but lost her husband and children in the genocide. “These things showed me that I was not human,” she said. Msaada’s support for her has given her new hope. Now she feels human again after years feeling like an outcast. Sadly, Angelique’s story is by no means unusual in Rwanda.
10 Team News Dementia Friendly Community Initiative
An elderly professor developed Alzheimer’s disease. Despite this he continued to attend the faculty meetings. As his memory worsened his wife asked him whether he enjoyed the meetings. His reply was “yes, they still think I’m a person.” I quote: “those living with Dementia are worthy of value and respect,” to which I would add understanding. A huge thank you to the team here where I have observed nothing but respect and compassion for those in our midst with this disease. I personally am hugely grateful to the diocese which encourages all LPAs to attend at least one of the many courses they run for those in Ministry. Years ago I attended one such training day, this time on Dementia, never dreaming that the condition would ever touch our family. After that my curiosity drove me to learn more about it. The knowledge I gained has been invaluable in my current situation.
Now the challenge is to enable Shaftesbury and District to qualify as a Dementia Friendly Community To this end John Lewer, the former Mayor, has gathered a steering group whose task is to offer Dementia Friends information sessions to businesses, shops, young people, faith groups, organisations etc. I’ll keep people informed of information sessions available for who haven’t attended yet been to one of the hour-long programmes. This is a wonderful and very loving project, do please support it.
Jill Sellgren, LPA.
11 St John’s, Enmore Green
Wednesday 1 May Coffee Morning in the Church Hall 10.00am to 12 noon Bring and Buy plus home made cakes Pop in when you can.
Sunday 12 May Visit of the Byzant Ceremony to Enmore Green c. 2.45pm Come and join in the fun as we re-enact this ancient ceremony.
Tuesday 14 May 2.30-5pm Tea and Memories in the Church Hall Come and reminisce over tea and cake. All welcome Ring Elizabeth if you need transport 01747 850654
Dates for your diary
Wednesday 5 June Coffee Morning in the Church Hall 10.00am to 12 noon Bring and Buy plus home made cakes All welcome
Saturday 8th June – St. John’s in the Town Hall 10.00am to 2.00pm. Refreshments and a Variety of Stalls.
12 Hine & Parsons Your Local Store Domestic Pets and Farm Animals Select from the largest stock in the district 24 Hour Emergency Care Linens, Fabrics, Furnishings and Curtains Consultations by appointment
Tel. Shaftesbury 852466 Sturminster: 01258 472314 Shaftesbury: 01747 850500 Blandford: 01258 472160
AUTOMOTIVE CAR AND MOTORCYCLE Gold Hill Probus Club ACCESSORIES Meets monthly Car audio repairs and decoding on the second Monday at Bell Street Car Park, Shaft esbury Bell Street United Church Tel: 01747 855701 at 10.00am Ladies and Gentlemen welcome. Email carandbikestuff @tiscali.co.uk For details contact Keith Aylen Tel. 01747 851018
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Recycling Sale for Sudan Medical Link Many thanks to all who helped with this year’s Sudan sale, both setting up on the Friday evening and with the sale and packing away on the Saturday. We raised about £1,600 on the day, bringing this year’s total to about £3,000 so far. This, the 12th of these sales, was also the last. This is due to the difficulty of finding suitable items for sale, the increasing age of all the ‘doers’ but also because there appears to be a dwindling market for the sort of ‘stuff’ that we collect and sell. Other methods of fund raising are being explored. Watch this space! I shall have a stall in aid of Sudan at the Bishop of Salisbury’s Garden Party at the South Canonry in the Close from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday 16th June. If you fancy an afternoon out in delightful surroundings (complete with real live camels!) then make a note of this event in your diary. Julian Richards
Welcome Return of the Singing Nuns from Minsk Book the date now! Friday 31st May at 7.00pm for a splendid concert of chants and songs to start your weekend. And it is free entry with generous donations (please and pretty please!). After the concert, there will be time to learn about work being done, and to buy gorgeous craft products from the workshops of the convent of St Elisabeth in Belarus. Have a look at the convent website: www.heart-2-heart.news and see what is in store for us that evening.
Pilgrim Service The Pilgrim Service on Sunday 14th April was entitled ‘De Profundis’ – ‘Out of the depths have I called upon Thee, O Lord. O Lord, hear my voice’. The theme mirrored Christ’s journey during Holy Week. Please come and join us for our next Pilgrim Service at St James’ church on Sunday 12th May at 6.00pm. This more informal type of service is followed by fellowship and refreshments.
Looking further ahead All Things Bright and Beautiful – a Festival of flowers and music for Pentecost th8 - 10th June The church will be wondrously decorated with at least ten special arrangements by the team of ‘flower ladies’ and you can sing your way round as you pause to admire their work: The purple headed mountain; The tall trees in the greenwood and so on.
17 Music starts with Shaftesbury Community Choir on Friday evening, Bournemouth Male Voice Choir on Saturday evening, QPM – an all ladies choir - singing at Holy Communion on Sunday. Then Chris Mahon will be giving an organ recital on Monday, followed by tea and cake. More details next month, but this is just to whet your appetite. We’ll look forward to seeing you then.
From the Registers
Baptism Sunday 31st March – Charlie John Maddison Hall
Memorial Service Wednesday 27th March – Charles Dowson
Monday 29th April – Brian Glover
Funerals Thursday 11th April – Keith Lee
This Easter I was prepared - with my egg-hunting app
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Food Bank Thank you for all the generous donations for the Gillingham Food Bank. The box is still in the church for donations of any non-perishable foods. They are particularly in need of small jars of coffee, dried potato mash, ketchup, brown sauce, tinned potatoes, fruit juice, sponge puddings, UHT milk, chocolate and cereal bars. Many thanks.
FROM THE REGISTERS
Burial of Ashes
30th March James Grieve
6th April Christine Joan Lee Funeral
9th April Vera Ann Stirk (at Salisbury Crematorium)
SERVICES IN May Morning Prayer is said at 8.30am Monday-Wednesday and on Saturday and Holy Communion at 10.00am on Thursday each week, except in Holy Week. There will also be Evening Prayer at 5.30pm on Wednesday in Holy Week. All are welcome.
The church is open daily for private prayer or as a quiet space for reflection.
Sunday 5th 11.15am Parish Communion (BCP) Sunday 12th 9.30am Parish Communion Sunday 19th 9.30am Rogation Service at Frog Lane Farm Sunday 26th 9.30am Parish Communion Thursday 30th 7.00pm Team Communion for Ascension Day
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Services in May Sunday 5th May 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) Sunday 19th May 11.15am Easter Festival Communion Wednesdays 9.00 am Morning Prayer
Church Annual Meetings
Our Annual Parishioners’ Meeting was held on Sunday 7th April at 4.30pm in the Church. This is the meeting at which church wardens are elected. Our existing church wardens had to stand down, having served for six years. There were no nominations for church wardens for the year ahead, so St Mary’s currently has no wardens.
This was followed by the Annual Parochial Church Meeting at which the following were elected:
Electoral Roll Officer - Diana Miura
PCC members - James Miura and Gillian Cross, Susan Ladd, Colin McHenry, Jacquie McHenry, Diana Miura and Caroline Owen continue to serve as PCC members.
At the PCC meeting immediately following the Annual Meetings, Tony Cecil was co- opted as Treasurer and Gillian Cross was elected Secretary. If you would like to find out more about our village church, or would like to offer some help, please speak to one of these people, who will be very happy to help you.
The Church Hall Committee
The Church Hall is available for village social events and for private hire. It is maintained and managed by a small committee of villagers. At the moment, only two of the committee members come from Compton Abbas village itself. It would be very good to have one or two more, to say how villagers would like the hall to be used. If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact Gillian Cross (Tel: 811263)
20 Local - Bed & Breakfast
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Do you have family and friends wanting to visit but you don’t have enough room to put them up?
Rate - £35 per head per night, reduced to £30 for associates of locals and members of the Team churches. We have two double and one twin bedded room, all en-suite. living room with a wood burner in which to relax, watch TV and have breakfast. Stair lift; Wi-Fi and a pretty, relaxing garden.
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Monday 29th April 7pm at St Luke’s West Orchard
Tea and Chat Thank you to Ray and Annie Barnes for hosting the April Tea and Chat. West Orchard will host in May on Wednesday 15th at Manor Meadow home of Philip and Rita Stranger As usual the time is 2.30pm-3.30pm. Please do come along and join us.
Easter Bingo. The Bingo held at Manston Village Hall on Thursday 4th April raised £288 for church funds. A big thankyou to all who donated prizes, items for the raffle or helped on the night
Date for our Diaries
Ceilidh / Barn Dance A Ceilidh / Barn Dance is being held at Froghole Farm SP7 0PZ on Friday 14th June, in aid of The Orchards and Margaret Marsh Churches and Cancer Research. Hambledon Hopstep Band will be the musicians. There will be a bar and barbecue, skittles and something for all the family. £10 per adult, £2 per child. For tickets phone 07737 848852 or Wessex Travel on 01747 811838 For the next planning meeting contact 01747 852195.
John Powell It was with great sadness that we received the news of John’s recent passing. John had been a member of St Margaret’s church community for some 30 years. In that time he was a member of the PCC and Representative on Synod, supporting the Parish in many ways. He will be greatly missed. There will be a service at St Gregory’s, Marnhull on Friday 17th May in celebration of his life. Margaret would be pleased to welcome those who would like to share a service of memories of John
From the Registers John Powell burial February 14th at Margaret Marsh
For services at West Orchard and Margaret Marsh please see Pg 25
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24 CHRISTIAN AID WEEK MAY 12th - 19th 2019
This is without a doubt, the most important fund-raising event in the Christian Aid calendar and this year there is no better way to bring it into focus than to share with you the plight of women in Sierra Leone. It is the world’s most dangerous place to become a mother. EVERY DAY 10 WOMEN DIE FROM GIVING BIRTH. In the Sawala district the community struggle with a clinic that has no electricity and only two delivery beds. This is Jebbah’s story. She is heavily pregnant but as her baby grows, it’s not joy that fills her heart, but fear. When her sister Fatmata went into labour, there were so few ambulances that Fatmata had no choice but to walk for three hours under the baking sun to the nearest hospital. The journey was long and with every step she struggled to keep walking. Jebbeh told us, “My sister was crying out with hunger. She died on the side of the road. She never gave birth”. This Christian Aid Week, together we can make childbirth safer for mothers and babies. Through our gifts and prayers we can help give the world’s poorest mums a chance to live. So, when that familiar envelope arrives on your doormat, perhaps you might remember Jebbah, Fatmata and all the other women who fear the coming of what should be a joyous time and help Christian Aid to free them from that dreadful anxiety. SB The Orchards and Margaret Marsh Services Rogation 19th May Margaret Marsh 11.15am Regular Services at St Margarets First Sunday of the month 11.15am Parish Communion (BPC) Third Sunday of the month 11.15am Matins Fourth Sunday of the month 11.15am Matins
Services at St Luke’s First Sunday of the month 6.30pm Evening Praise Second Sunday of the month 11.15am Morning Prayer
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26 OLD BOOKS BOUGHT
Should you have any old books surplus to your needs we are very happy to call, entirely without obligation, and, if suitable, make an o er. We also wish to purchase old G B Building & albums of postcards and photographs. Also handwritten Maintenance items, e.g. old letters, diaries, autographs etc We have been buying in Dorset for Conserva� on Builder 50 years Historic, Listed and Tradi� onal Methods Bristow & Garland 01747 855666 Lime Plastering Stonework Cob Walls Lime Wash Paints Brickwork Telephone Mr Gary Broom on 07776 032289 or 01823 283212 Listed Heritage Member
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